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Re:Motivations of a Hacker by xuki on Sunday April 17, 2011 @12:13AM (#2455542)
To give some perspectives, the article is written by someone in Singapore and intern rate there is about SGD 1000 per month ~ 750 USD, so 5k USD is kind of big deal for 3 months of work. I used to work for Apple Singapore for 800 SGD per month.

Additional figures, fresh graduate CS major worth about 30k USD per year.

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Re:Motivations of a Hacker by mdwrigh2 on Sunday April 17, 2011 @12:19AM (#2455547)
I had kind of figured he wasn't American, but also misunderstood what he meant by "take it off the table". He's since updated it saying he meant to pay market rates, which is absolutely correct. I think you just need to pay enough to take the worry of being able to pay cost of living for the summer off the table.
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